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• I’m going to hell for laughing at that!

  helena | Homepage | 11 07 2006 at 3:49 am

• Helena:

  Well. Hmmm. I know you’ve been through this with some of mine so i can admit to mentally formulating about two dozen different comments over the past four days to your last post, and honestly, i’ve developed a comment-related form of stage fright preventing me from posting on your page so i’m doing it on mine.

  I couldn’t come up with anything intelligent beyond “wow, it’s like reading about myself”, both as far as never being able to hold people accountable for their actions and always looking to find them an excuse or some rational explanation for why i’m the one who’s wrong or who has misinterpreted, and also as far as the calm zen exterior that only so often erupts. So in looking for a way to simply express sympathy/empathy without having an actual practical solution or word of wisdom to offer, i’ve just been staring into comment-void and it has been staring into me.

  I don’t know. I usually walk away from conflict and in the case of relationships beyond repair or people i’ve given up struggling to interact with, just ignore them and wait for them to go away. Life is too short to try and punish people, and revenge is overrated. Of course if it’s people there’s no way to avoid, arsenic or trebuchets is the answer, depending on the degree of subtlety you’re aiming for.

  I had a dream about you the other night. I think we were taking some form of skiing lessons.

  bering | Homepage | 11 07 2006 at 5:00 pm

• Please don’t ever be shy of commenting, I like reading your comments. But I do know where you’re coming from. You read something and you don’t have anything appropriate (or even inappropriate but amusing) to say and so you don’t write anything and then when you next read it you do have something to say but either there’s been too long a gap between the posting and your comment or other people have commented so what you had to say is no longer as relevant as it was when there were no (few) comments and besides which it feels like you’re butting in on a private conversation anyway…and then you look at everyone else who comments wily nily on a million and one blogs and wonder if they ever feel like that?

  The sympathy and the empathy are received very gratefully. Although I am sorry that you’ve gone through the same sort of thing. I know the short circuit checking and cross checking your reaction to everything sets up in your brain.

  Skiing? Sounds like fun!

  helena | Homepage | 12 07 2006 at 7:05 am

• exactly

  bering | Homepage | 12 07 2006 at 7:46 am